Tunbridge Wells No. 3

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angel

[cf. Font notes]
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

INFORMATION

FontID: 12143TUN
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. James
Church Patron Saints: St. James
Country Name: England
Location: Kent, South East
Directions to Site: Located on St. James' Rd
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Date: 1914?
Century and Period: 20th century?, Modern
Cognate Fonts: copy/replica of the font by Thorvaldsen in the Cathedral of Copenhagen
Font Notes:
Noted in Newman (1980): "Font. Given in 1914. Near-life marble angel holding a shell, a copy of Thorwaldsen's famous font, of 1823." [cf. Index entry for Copenhagen No. 5]

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

REFERENCES

Newman, John, West Kent and the Weald, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1980